Tory leadership debate, 15 July 2022

So you’re a journo? Sure, I’ve got five minutes if you make it worth my while. Jeff Harris, 56. Been running Cosplay Capers for around eight years.

Well, she was in on Friday sorting out her costume for the telly. We’re just round the corner from the F.O. and I’ve always got loads of Maggie gear – goes down well with the dominatrix crowd. So we had a rifle through and found that lovely pussy-bow blouse: Mags circa 1979, rocking her iron-fist-in-velvet-glove look. Pair it with a dark jacket, I says to Liz, and you’ll be the spitting image.

Yeah, I watched the debate. More Robot Lady than Iron Lady, if you ask me.

To tell you the truth, I don’t want any of ’em to win. Millionaires playing at politics, all Instagram and hot air. Bring on the general election.

Update: Liz Truss went on to win the Conservative Party leadership race (decided by Tory Party members only) and became Prime Minister on 6 September 2022.

Following the delivery of a frankly unhinged mini-budget on 23 September 2022, the global financial markets reacted negatively, sending the pound into freefall and critically endangering a number of UK pension funds. The Bank of England was forced to take emergency action, buying up UK government bonds to steady the markets. Truss ended up sacking Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and reversing the majority of the mini-budget’s uncosted plans.

Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister on 25 October 2022. She had been in office for 49 days and was famously outlasted by the Daily Mirror‘s lettuce. The estimated cost of the disastrous Truss-Kwarteng mini-budget to the UK is £30 billion. Yes, 30 BILLION POUNDS.

She was succeeded by Rishi Sunak, who had come second in the Tory Party leadership race (decided by Tory Party members only).